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idor-testing

Provide systematic methodologies for identifying and exploiting Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities in web applications.

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The canonical home for this skill is idor-testing in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is thorough and highly actionable with concrete tool configs and code, but it is held back by repetition across examples, missing in-workflow validation checkpoints for batch/exploitation steps, and a monolithic structure with no progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Embed explicit validation/authorization checkpoints in the core workflow (e.g. confirm written authorization before enumeration; verify data ownership before reporting a finding) instead of relegating verification to Troubleshooting.

Consolidate the five worked examples, which largely duplicate the Detection/Exploitation sections; keep one or two representative cases and remove the repetition.

Split the long reference material (common IDOR locations, vulnerable-parameter tables, remediation code) into separate reference files under references/ and link to them from SKILL.md to reduce the monolithic body.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly actionable rather than padded with basics, but it is noticeably repetitive: the five worked examples rehash the same ID-manipulation techniques already shown in the Detection and Exploitation sections, and the Quick Reference tables repeat them again.

3 / 5

Actionability

It provides concrete, executable guidance — specific Burp Suite Intruder payload configs, full HTTP request examples, and runnable Python remediation snippets — with only minor gaps (a few numbered lists read as procedural hints rather than exact commands).

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The core workflow is clearly sequenced (Understand → Recon → Detection → Exploitation → Locations), but it involves batch enumeration (Intruder range 1–10000) and exploitation without embedded validation/authorization checkpoints; verification currently lives only in Troubleshooting, so the destructive/batch cap of 3 applies.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Section headers give reasonable structure, but the 447-line body is a monolith with no bundle files or external references; the worked examples, parameter/location tables, and remediation code that could live in separate reference files are all inlined.

3 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific and well-targeted to the IDOR niche with correct third-person voice, but it lacks an explicit "Use when..." trigger clause and natural synonym keywords, leaving it at a mid-range score.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when testing web applications for IDOR / broken access control vulnerabilities during authorized security assessments."

Include natural synonym trigger terms users actually say: "access control", "broken access control", "BOLA", "authorization bypass".

Broaden the capability list to mention detection/enumeration and remediation, since the body covers them, rather than only "identifying and exploiting".

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Specificity

The description names the domain ("Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities in web applications") and two concrete actions ("identifying and exploiting"), but does not enumerate the fuller coverage the body provides (detection, enumeration, remediation).

3 / 5

Completeness

It gives a clear "what" (systematic methodologies for identifying and exploiting IDOR) but has no "Use when..." clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the judging guidelines.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It includes the natural terms "IDOR" and "Insecure Direct Object Reference", but omits common synonyms users actually say such as "access control", "broken access control", "BOLA", or "authorization bypass".

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

IDOR testing is a narrow, distinct niche with minimal conflict risk, though it could mildly overlap with broader web-application pentesting or access-control testing skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

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